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USED-CAR MARKET ANALYSIS Used-Car Auction Values Reach Three-Year Low In May 2013, used-car auction values reached a three-year low…  Used-Car Segments Mostly Down Year-to-Date Mid-size pickup trucks are doing well due to an increase in housing st

Joe Overby at AutoRemarketing explores trends of vehicles that avoid downward price impact amongst increasing lease-return volume. The rising tide of off-lease volumes looks like it will stick around for the next few years, and the influx of supply h

Responding to price-dropping offers from other automakers on their electric vehicles, Honda will slash the lease deal for its Fit EV starting in June. From the current level of a zero-down, $389/month lease, Honda has lowered the price to zero-down a

It’s easy to forget about the shopper experience, particularly with pre-owned inventory.  Wei Yang at EasyAutoSales shares his recent experience being on the buying side. The time has finally come. My family is about to welcome our first new a

Turning More Than 1,000,000 Customers Into Fans For BMW Group Financial Services. WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ, May ­­­­30, 2013– As BMW Group Financial Services approaches its 20th anniversary of conducting business in the United States, The Group has a

Dealer Communications and Dataium, LLC recognize the top 10 dealership websites, and the technology solution providers behind these platforms. More than 3,000 automotive dealership websites nationwide were evaluated using objective metrics to determi

Are webisodes the opportunity for your dealership to tell a story? Think of web television as a nuclear family. It all started with TV — the traditional type. Along came the web, which, in many ways, was TV’s polar opposite: interactive, responsi

Mercedes-Benz is making cars smarter. We’ve seen QR codes being incorporated into all kinds of things, from billboards to toilet paper to beer bottles. Now, German automaker Mercedes-Benz will incorporate those scannable, black-and-whi

Facebook has vowed to take action after feminist activists — upset about Facebook’s failure to ban and/or remove misogynous content from its site — sent more than 5,000 e-mails to Facebook’s advertisers and garnered more than 60,000 posts on